Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite great advances in techniques and technology, the discipline of climatology-the study of long-range trends in weather-is still an inexact science, to say the least. Climatologists still disagree on whether earth's long-range outlook is another ice age, which could bring mass starvation and fuel shortages, or a warming trend, which could melt the polar icecaps and flood coastal cities...
...number of factors have come together to produce the higher second-quarter results: increased fares (up 18% domestically in 2½ years); fuel costs that, while high, have remained relatively stable; and a rise in traffic of 8% to 10%. A 16% increase in travel to Hawaii in early July will probably help move United Airlines, the largest carrier, into the black for 1976, although recovery from a strike last December still kept the line in the red for the first half...
...reopen its mines. "Industrial anarchy," charged Joseph Brennan, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators Association. "Everyone is the victim, but shameful wildcats go on." In fact, only the coal companies and such coal-carrying railroads as the Chessie System and Norfolk and Western have so far been hurt. The fuel's major users-electric utilities, coke plants and steel mills-maintain 23-to 90-day stockpiles, enough to ride out a short strike...
About this time every year, officials in Government and industry begin wondering aloud whether the nation will have enough natural gas to make it through the winter. The speculations invariably revive the suggestion that there would be more of the clean, cheap fuel to go around if gas cost more and was more profitable to look for and produce. Last week the Federal Power Commission decided to put that perennial hypothesis to the test. By a 3-to-1 vote, the commissioners sharply jacked up the price of much of the natural gas that is now piped across state lines...
...Lake Ontario. The 22-ft. sailboat (worth $10,000 new) had been damaged during shipment to Montreal and had served Britannia poorly. Said disgusted Skipper Warren: "She was lame: kindness called for us to put her down." The task proved almost Olympian. Paint thinner sloshed on the decks to fuel the blaze evaporated before Crewman Hunt could kindle it. "His performance was wretched," said Warren. Canadian security forces, fearing a bombing, rushed a Coast Guard cutter, police boat and helicopter to the scene, and soon made plain what part of an 'orse they thought the British were...